Stay Tuned: Something BIG is Coming Up - Part Two
By: Brian Kim - October 27, 2006
By: Brian Kim - October 27, 2006
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My first book is due to be out by mid November and it has been years in the making so I’m glad I’m finally able to share it. There were a few details that needed to be ironed out but everything is on track.
I wanted to give some more details as to what the book will entail. This book will be focusing on self improvement and goal achievement and it’s going to be unlike any book on self improvement and goal achievement you ever read before.
It’s not going to be the kind of book that slaps together a bunch of separate techniques and overwhelms the reader with huge amounts of information to the point where the reader cannot even remember the one main idea that is crucial for comprehension. This book is going to be different in the sense that it’s going to provide a paradigm shift.
Some of you may be wondering what I mean by paradigm shift so let me give you an example to clarify what I mean by that.
There are a lot of financial success books out there that are often found with such titles as “The Keys to Wealth” or “10 Secrets of Millionaires” or “10 Ways to Become Wealthy”.
Then when you pick up the book and read it, you get a compilation of separate disjointed information such as “Invest 10% of your Income”, “Pay Yourself First”, “Set a budget”, “Track your spending”, “Limit your expenses”, etc.
Now don’t get me wrong, that advice is good, but it’s a dime a dozen. Read enough financial success books and you’ll see the same principles appearing over and over again.
Then another financial success book came along called Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. This book was different. It didn’t give “10 Tips for Financial Success” or “5 Keys to Wealth” or “101 Ways to Increase Your Income”. No, what it did was provide a paradigm shift, a new way of thinking and looking at things that you never thought of before.
The main paradigm shift of the book was Kiyosaki’s definition of assets and liabilities. It differed from the definitions provided by accountants today. Kiyosaki’s definition of an asset was something that put money IN your pocket. Liabilities take money OUT of your pocket.
He reasoned that the rich use their money to buy assets while the middle class use their money for liabilities, which they mistakenly think of as assets. Therefore, the key to becoming rich was to use your money to buy assets that produce enough cashflow that would be sufficient enough to cover your liabilities.
People were amazed at how that subtle difference between an asset and a liability were able to make them view things they’ve seen before in a whole new light.
That’s exactly what a paradigm shift is. The ability to see concepts you’ve heard and seen before in a brand new light.
Despite this paradigm shift, many people still felt like the book fell short.
Why?
Because it only gave that paradigm shift. It didn’t tell you specifically how to do it or in other words, what assets to buy.
It’s not enough to just present a new way of looking at things. You can’t leave the reader hanging. You must back it up with specific how-to’s. (to Kiyosaki’s credit, he does provide some obvious examples of assets like a business, stocks, bonds, real estate but it’s very general)
After realizing how frustrated readers were with that, I made sure to present the new paradigm shift involving the principles and concepts you’ve read before in various self improvement and goal achievement books AND show you how to take advantage of this paradigm shift with various techniques and exercises.
I’m really excited about this book because I know it will help many people achieve their goals. After reading it, you’ll be able to realize why you were able to achieve some of your major goals and why you weren’t able to on others. If you read the biographies and stories of other successful people, you’ll also be able to “frame” their journey of success after understanding the information in the book. If you don’t get it now, don’t worry because it’ll make more sense when I fully explain what the book is about on the day of its release